Road Trip Through Pictures Day 2: Bristol, Bath and Stonehenge

Day 2 started with the tour around Bristol. It's a really lovely city which can be covered on foot. The weather was really lovely too.

Broadmead Shopping Centre. Love the roof design.

Walk along Castle Park and River Avon

Tourist information centre

This area reminded me of Venice, with the unique building designs and small ships anchored along the walkways. I think I look a bit too Malaysian and our reputation for the love of food has spread too far cause the lady at the tourist info kept on recommending places to eat when I asked her where should we visit. I think I heard 'you can stop here to eat' at least 6 times during that conversation. That phrase really stuck with me as she had this really cute accent when she said 'eat'. The most enthusiastic guide that I've met so far. If you're interested, the places that she recommended include Cheddar, Glastonbury, and Frome where we could have our morning tea, lunch, 2nd lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, 2nd dinner, supper, okok, you get the idea.

Bristol Cathedral - a very impressive looking cathedral with beautiful interior designs. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

First statue of a unicorn that I've seen in my life. I used to be so crazy about them.

St Nicholas Market in the old town

Farmers' market - lots of fresh seafood, meats and bread

Sweets and more sweet! Chocolate cigar anyone? (Right lower corner)

Clifton suspension bridge - our last stop before we bid Bristol farewell.

Bath - the 2nd visit

I had a feeling that I would return to Bath one day but I didn't expect it to be exactly a month later. Seems like just yesterday. For more extensive stories about the city, please visit my previous post. This post will be focused on eating!

Sally Lunn

I'd always wanted to eat at this restaurant but previously, we already have our packed lunch with us, so, I have returned this time. I'm sure they did put this mirror on the wall for a reason. Same shot but with different company. We didn't have to wait long to be seated in this small cosy restaurant.

This place served the best coffee and tea that I've had so far. The coffee had this really nice aroma and the taste was really unique. It had a tinge of bitterness which suited me really well. The tea was awesome too. I do recommend to drink it plain without milk or sugar. The Sally Lunn buns were really delicious too. I had Rarebit...if you're thinking the same as I did when I saw it, no, it's not rabbit. They're too cute to be eaten, but saying that, we do have rabbit satay back home. It's a Welsh dish made from savoury sauce with buns topped with cheese and toasted. Yummy! I want to go back to Bath again.

Stonehenge
We managed to fit stonehenge into our itinerary. Reached there around 4pm and believe it or not, we stayed till 6pm and were the last ones to leave. You must be wondering how can we spend so much time there right? Well, read on.

Stonehenge, which also means Hanging stones has been built in 2500BC. Till today, nobody knows why huge rocks were carried from miles and miles away to Salisbury to build this circle of rock. The latest theory is that they are for ancestor worship as there are many graves around the area. I'm sure we'll discover the answer to that mystery one day.

If we went back in time, our photos will age but the stones will still look the same.

Now, to take you through how we spent our time around the famous circle of stone:

First, start with all the normal posts and take pictures of the rocks while listening to the audio guide. I had fun listening to it as it interests me. Next, take jumping photos followed by optical illusion shots. By the time we finished those, we had to be chased out. Hahaha.

My favourite photo. It seems so small here.

Highest difficulty level of pose, thanks to SM for volunteering. Good work!

Chilling out

The month can also be determined by where the shadow falls at certain times of the day. A ring of small stones in the middle circle are called Blue stones which is believed to have healing powers.

I was glad that they have put in effort to preserve the stones. I was shocked that the guide told us that some of the stones were 'stolen' for building houses and smaller pieces were chipped off by visitors as souvenirs. There was a few visible graffiti too.

How the stonehenge actually look. There are some speculations that there may be a roof in the past but hasn't survived till this day.

I'm going to carry this piece of stonehenge for the foundation to my new home. Hahaha.

Story of the haunted house

We set off for Cornwall right after we left Stonehenge. As we didn't book any accommodation that night, we just randomly stopped at any B&B which had advertised vacancy. It was already dark when we drove through really narrow lanes to get to this B&B. It was a really lovely house, brightly lighted with a car parked in the front. We rang the doorbell but there was no answer. So, we tried the handle, the door was opened. Went in calling out but nobody answered. Somehow, it was too quiet. Really quiet. It felt like this was a trap, the house was too welcoming but something just didn't seem right. There's a car but no one's answering and the house was fully lighted and doors were unlocked.

We quickly left the place.....it did look really haunted from the outside.

Checked into Travelodge at St Austell - worst hotel that I've stayed in so far. Unless you're given the room which they keep for inspection, do not stay there, you've been warned.

Finally, we reached our original planned destination after 3 detours. Should have started this trip earlier.

Next up: Eden Project